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by andy_herbert 14y ago
I don't want to see this fail by any means, but to me it seems like a slightly immature response to a [very public disagreement][1] The Oatmeal had with a Forbes journalist, which involved a [very unusual retort][2]. [1]: http://www.forbes
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
In my opinion comments are a bad idea for your site, unless you're fortunate to have an exclusive audience. Yes, I am aware of the irony of this comment.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
No excuses here, but who would have thought that male hormones and alcohol would lead to such behavior.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
What makes you think they haven't tried and failed to make it work (well) on mobile? Maybe in the cost benefit analysis it would be better to devote time and resources on HTML toolsets.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Not really surprising, in my opinion once these organizations become large enough that diffusion of responsibility become institutionalized. It doesn't necessarily indicate that the individuals don't care, just that they feel that it isn't
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Great! When are you going to start working on it? Without the individuals willing to put in the work then directions like this are pointless, however well intentioned. Since no-one attached to the development of Textmate has expressed any i
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Allan Odgaard: "I will continue working on TextMate as long as I am a Mac user"(arstechnica.com)
13 points by andy_herbert 14y ago|0 comments
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Wow, how long did it take to write this article, given the news of Textmate 2 going open source is only hours old? If I was cynical, I'd be guessing that the topical headline was a fairly shameless attempt to gain attention from website agg
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
> TM had a lot of fans, but no-one liked its undo What an absurd generalization.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Pretty damning, I'm confident that all the mobile manufacturers do this against each other, why wouldn't they? It just sucks to be Samsung right now.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
An extremely noble goal, but I'd say it was unlikely for a reason not mentioned in the article, but heavily implied: this would be a one-way trip. Whilst creating and maintaining a Mars base would be one of humanity's crowning achievements,
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
> No where is it claimed by anyone that Apple copied Samsung Except in the PDF linked in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
The Samsung F700 sure looks like an iPhone, at a distance, until you try to type on the thing and realise it has a pull-out hardware keyboard. How did that work out for successive designs? It makes you wonder if Apple really was copying off
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Such a shame that there will be very little 'curiosity' expressed by the general public.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
'But you also need to spot, grab and run with opportunities. Not many do. Don’t be that person.' Seems like great advise, with the benefit of hindsight. The contrary position is risking spending your time with something that will never come
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Must be the lowest barrier to entry for a 'hacker' yet.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
I'm sure Apple, or the ad agency commissioned by them, have focus-grouped the heck out of these already. I can't think what value people commenting exclusively in the tech blogosphere, well intentioned or not, have much to add in respect to
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
It might give an extra layer of protection if a browser actually bothered to ask the user if they wanted to enable the plugin if they didn't explicitly ask to install it themselves.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
'It is great for learning to code ' When the machine was first pitched it was as a spiritual successor to the BBC Micro computer - to inspire and create a generation of bedroom programmers. Compared to the home computers of the 80s, the Ras
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Poverty is like slavery in a very flippant sense. You only have to read some of the first-hand accounts of human trafficking to get the sense of the difference.
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
Of course messages go to all your devices, how would the notification system know if you had seen it already on a companion device? This is exactly how Calendar reminders worked before messages appeared. I'm not sure how the author would pr
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
The very first example on that post is at best misleading, and at worse just plain wrong. b() will be called after a() has returned, unless of course an asynchronous call is made to a function such as XMLHTTPRequest whilst passing a callbac
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
For the vast majority of Apple's customers the first glimpse of a new product will be through a news item or television advert. I think the theatrics Jobs employed at the keynote were symptomatic of a highly prepared and charismatic individ
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
> I was only able to reject those offers because Instapaper is a healthy business, and the life that Instapaper provides for me and my family is better than what the big companies offered. The subtext I'm reading here is that none of th
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
I've read and reread more articles like this in the past few years than I care to count. It seems to be the most popular cause amongst amateur design-critics, and also has the added benefit of generating provocative article titles. I don't
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
'It's only a matter of time...'. Somehow, I doubt it. Louis C.K. is in a pretty unique space to try and do this kind of thing, and as mentioned in the article he would have no obvious reason to do this for his own show. To my, admittedly li
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by andy_herbert 14y ago
I didn't consider the movie to be a perfect arbiter of truth, and I expect over-simplifications in the documentary in order to tell a 'story', but I don't see what value this post by Jean Snow adds to the discussion. There seems to be stron
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Behind the Mask(theorme.net)
1 points by andy_herbert 15y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Wolfram Pro(theorme.net)
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Why Mistreatment of Workers at Foxconn is Unlikely to Change Anytime Soon(theorme.net)
2 points by andy_herbert 15y ago|0 comments

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